Texas A&M University researchers have...

FUSION CLAIMED.

April 10, 1989

HOUSTON — FUSION CLAIMED. Texas A&M University researchers have duplicated a controversial University of Utah experiment that reportedly achieved nuclear fusion using a relatively simple process, a college spokesman said Sunday. ''Other labs around the country have been trying to duplicate this, but nobody else has been able to get satisfactory results,'' said Ed Walraven, a Texas A&M spokesman. ''Our people are convinced that they've got it, so as a gesture to the researchers in Utah we wanted to announce it as soon as possible.'' Officials at the school in College Station said they would hold a news conference today. Researchers in Utah announced March 23 that they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature, a claim met with widespread skepticism among colleagues. Nuclear fusion, found in the sun and hydrogen bombs, is sought after as a possible replacement for conventional energy sources because it would be clean, inexpensive and virtually inexhaustable.